To the editor: Mayor Karen Bass traveled to Ghana to attend the inauguration of that nation’s new president on Jan. 4, a day after the Nationwide Climate Service issued a hearth climate look ahead to Los Angeles. She landed in Africa on Jan. 5., and later that day, the climate service issued a red-flag warning. (“Former L.A. Fire Chief Kristin Crowley appeals her dismissal by Mayor Karen Bass,” Feb. 27)
Warnings escalated a number of instances on Jan 6., turning into a “notably harmful state of affairs” by the late afternoon in Los Angeles.
The inauguration ceremony in Ghana started on Jan. 7, round 2 a.m. Pacific time. A couple of hours later, round 10:30 a.m. in L.A., the Palisades Fireplace broke out.
Social media photographs confirmed Bass posing for images at a reception hosted by the U.S. ambassador to Ghana at round midday L.A. time, an hour and a half after the hearth started.
This is identical chief who criticized the hearth chief for failing to behave correctly, a basic case of the pot calling the kettle black. The chief’s firing looks as if an try and focus the issue on her and away from the mayor’s failure to behave in a extra acceptable method.
Barry S. Rubin, Beverly Hills
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To the editor: In the course of the Palisades fireplace, Los Angeles Fireplace Division Chief Kristin Crowley advised the media that the town had underfunded the LAFD, in impact laying the blame for the poor fireplace response on the ft of the mayor.
I consider Bass confirmed nice restraint in not terminating Crowley then and there.
Later, a report in the L.A. Times made clear how the chief’s inaction earlier than the Palisades fireplace might need allowed it to turn out to be so very harmful. I consider Bass was appropriate to terminate Crowley.
Mark Hollingsworth, Los Angeles
